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a snowmobile crash Saturday in Forest County after he was ejected from the snowmobile he was a passenger on and was struck by a second snowmobile.

According to the state Department of Natural Resources, the two snowmobiles were traveling east at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9, on a snowmobile trail across frozen Pickerel Lake in Forest County when the driver of the first snowmobile and its passenger, Austin W. Bares, were ejected.

An effort to make St. Mary’s Church in Little Kohler a private community center inched forward last week when the Town of Fredonia Plan Commission recommended that the town’s Board of Zoning Appeals rule whether to grant variances for property setbacks that are narrower than normally allowed.

The group of former parishioners hope to buy the church, subdivide it from the cemetery behind it and operate it as an historical and community center.

A joint meeting of the Fredonia Village Board and the Northern Ozaukee School Board will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 18, in the Ozaukee High School library.

Topics to be discussed include an update on school referendum construction, the school as the community’s emergency shelter, economic development, and construction of a sidewalk connecting the Emerald Hills subdivision to the school campus.

This is the second meeting of the two boards meant to bring them together to discuss areas of common interest.

One year after being diagnosed with cancer while an exchange student at Ozaukee High School in Fredonia, Edoardo Campus is in Italy playing sports, preparing for graduation and college and following the Milwaukee Bucks as best he can.

“Sometimes I wake up at 3 or 4 a.m. to watch the Bucks play. I am so happy for the team they built this year!!!” he said in an email last week.

Organizers of youth baseball and softball in Fredonia have decided to dip into their bank account to pay for improvements at Fireman’s Park and hope that fundraising to come will help restore those funds.

“Basically, we took money from the kids’ registration. The baseball club approved spending the money out of registration money,” said Billy Mills, a member of the youth organization.

The Ozaukee Warriors Softball/Baseball Association will spend about $12,000 to put in a new backstop and chain link fence on the first and third-base sides of the park diamond.

Monday was a long day for Village of Fredonia snow plow drivers as the area got socked with more than a foot of snow.

“We started at 3 a.m. (Monday) and finished at about 4 p.m. on Monday,” Village Public Works Director Roger Strohm said.

“We did one pass early in the morning and on all the driving lanes so people could get out for the morning commute and did another cleanup run through about 7 or 8 a.m. and a third run through out to the curb about 3 p.m.